Seven for a Secret. (novella)
Which I recommence working on today. Ready or not, here I come. Maybe it will have grown some plot while my back was turned.
Chill.
Yeah, I know. I know.
Bone and Jewel Creatures. (novella)
I really ought to revise this and write its last scene, since it's so close to finished. Perhaps I can do that after I finish 7faS.
One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King. (Promethean Age 5)
Complete in draft, needs a revision. Waiting to see if Roc decides to continue the series.
The Sea thy Mistress. (Edda of Burdens 3)
Complete in draft, needs a rewrite from scratch.
Grail.
Well, I have a sentence. And last night in the car I figured out some things about it. Not about Chill, of course.
Patience & Fortitude. (Promethean Age 6)
I have maybe fifty pages of this, most of them unusable.
Posthumous Jonson (Promethean Age) (needs a new title)
The most depressing book I will ever write. I have the beginning of this one.
Soldier's Heart
I will probably never write this one, as it's a sequel to Carnival, which doesn't need a sequel. It's not a direct sequel, though, as it's mostly about Vincent's sisters. Included here mostly because I have a title for it.
An Apprentice to Elves
The book about Isolfr's kid, if Sarah and I ever get around to it
Untitled Skaldwulf and Vethulf book
The other potential sequel to A Companion to Wolves, which is also not currently on the schedule in any way
Untitled Pulsifer Postlethwait Book
A mystery novel set in New England in the 1830s, which may or may not have a spec element, but sure would be easier to sell if it did. Maybe it needs a grindyloo or a glawackis or something.
Unsuitable Metal aka House of Masks (Promethean Age) (needs a new title)
Industrial Russian WWII fantasy
Balm & Oil (Promethean Age)
Victorian railroads across Africa! The "triumphant" return of Magnus Larssen (who you may recall as the not-very-bright protagonist of "Tiger! Tiger!"). Other cool stuffs!
Rag & Bone (Promethean Age)
The other Victorian PA novel.
Dog & Raven (Promethean Age)
15th c. Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, Stephen Bathory, and tangentially Vlad III, Dragon Prince.
Corinna, Corinna (Promethean Age) (Needs a new title)
This would be the murder ballad book.
A Treachery of Princes (Edda of Burdens #4)
I have about fifty pages of this one, in very bad ancient draft. Of course, it all depends on how the first three do.... But like the P.A. books, they're each self-contained, so it's not like it would be an Endless Series.
Between the Bones (Edda of Burdens #5)
Kitteh with a whip!
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Life is so hard when you're dumb as a stump.
Keeps me off the streets and all that.
Um... Really? O.o
It takes so little to earworm me with a Certain Song, and your description just did it, even though it's a different song.
Altogether on the chorus now:
And only say that you'll be mine
And in no other's arms entwine
Down beside where the waters flow
Down by the banks of the Ohio.
Also? Pulsifer Postlethwait. On the name alone, I must pin this down with a paw and chin-mark it. It is love. (I had a professor as an undergraduate who had, back in the 1930s, found part of her job as a graduate student involved Latinizing names for the diplomas at one of the Seven Sisters. She managed to restrain herself until she got to Desire Fitch.)
15th c. Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, Stephen Bathory, and tangentially Vlad III, Dragon Prince."
Love that Mattias Corvinus! :) The library that he put together has the best collection of Italian humanist manuscripts. The Bibliotheca Corviniana is one of the prizes of my library of illuminated manuscript books. :)
I will start a letter-writing campaign to say yes, readers can figure out series stuff even if the titles aren't all structured the same.
Re Murder ballads, have you heard of Frankie Silver? A very bad ballad, but a great 1820 frontier story, abused woman and stuff.. In your hands, well....
Mudcat.org will no doubt enlighten me.
The most depressing book I will ever write. I have the beginning of this one.
But Posthumous Jonson is a great name! And surely a Blues singer also?
I like the progression here from companion to apprentice. What would follow? A Mistress of Dragons? A Slave of Dragons? Strange how the muses like to play with these things when they find them. They're all magpies cawing over bright shiny objects. :-)
Any idea of when they'll let you know?
Posthumous Jonson is a fantastic title.
Also, a couple more years and you'll approach Joyce Carol Oates levels of scary prolific ;)
Murder...Ballad...Book? I think you just summed up three of my favorite things! Want!
But somehow I don't think I could bring myself actually to name them or describe them aloud. Superstitious? Maybe.
I have to say that if it had your name on the book, I'd definitely give it a go, even if it had no spec fic element to it. I know that doesn't really go any further towards convincing a publisher to give you money and put the book on the shelves, but I do think that even if you stepped outside SF/F, people would read.
And I'd hate to see you feel that you could only ever write things classified as SF/F. I really think that you could just as easily turn your hand to mystery, horror, or even historical fiction and be just as exhilarating as writer.
Again, that's just some weirdo on the internet's opinion and doesn't convince publishers, I know. But maybe it's worth something.
My life...it suddenly got so much brighter.
Also, no spoilers, but I just finished Ink and Steel and immediately ran to the computer to preorder Hell and Earth. So excited.
You have no idea how much I've wanted to read this book from the moment I finished A Companion to Wolves.
We are waiting for a concurrent break in the schedules, and also bolts of divine inspiration.